Aug 15, 2015

Buccaneers

An offshoot of the
name, ‘buccaneers’ of the Caribbean derived their name from
the Arawak Indian word buccan, referring to a wooden frame
used for smoking meats. The French changed this to boucan
and called the French hunters who used these frames to cook
and preserve feral cattle and the offspring of Columbus'
pigs on the island of Hispaniola boucaniers. English
colonists anglicized the word to buccaneers. This was
taken from my soon-to-be-released Bacon Orgazmia book.